10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Anyway, it is winter and the snakes should be hibernating.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 250

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

If you are mildly interested, proceed and read the caption. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. Yes, there is a bird in this picture. Of course you have already spotted it. And naturally you know what genus it belongs to.

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North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. Following this early example, weathervanes in classical antiquity often assumed the form of animals and mythological beings – often deifications of the four compass winds – traditions that carried on in Europe long past the fall of Rome.

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New York Farming Belgium Fowl 159

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2014

And asking yourself the right question is more than half the way towards the answer. Large windows and unobstructed views of the river are a criterion for the right observation point. And that is where the problem arose: it is their job to clear all the sediments collecting against the embankment.

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Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Marabous occur throughout tropical and subtropical Africa from Zululand in northern South Africa right up to the arid Sahel region fringing the Sahara Desert, avoiding the closed canopy rainforest zones of central and west Africa. It breeds on chimneys, roofs, buildings and trees throughout Europe, parts of Asia and even North Africa.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

We’re passing the Dasada village where shop owners and artisans are opening their doors, collecting rubbish in the street and burning it, while standing around those small fires and warming themselves up. Winter mornings are pretty cold, even without the wind-chill effect of an open Maruti Gypsy.

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India Birds Eagles Boars 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

My last blog has created quite a discussion among the readers, mostly from US, but also southern and eastern Africa and Europe (apologies if I forgot some region). In Hawai’i, I was standing right beside the guide when we got an Akiapolaau pair…we just stared at each other in pure delight. Also enthusiastic.

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Greece Birds Zambia Experience 229

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. They can be found all over the book–some interspersed with resident and migratory species, some collected together in the back of the chapter, some in the last chapter on North American vagrant landbirds.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 160

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JUNE 1, 2021

A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

Wheeler, Raptors of Mexico and Central America has a two-part structure: (i) Plates—artwork by Schmitt on the right, detailed plumage descriptions on the left; (ii) Species Accounts—two to six page descriptions of each species with photographs and range maps. And vice versa. Again, this is a common practice. John Schmitt, Oxford Univ.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

By collecting data and following individual birds it is possible to provide data to both governments and environmental groups to help protect the habitat both here and overseas into the future. She has lived in the Middle East and the United States and traveled extensively in Europe. Wicked, right? I am a man. Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

She has lived in the Middle East and the United States and traveled extensively in Europe. We had collected it to remove from the beach, but it was very useful for sea snakes. Wicked, right? Clare and Grant-Broome Western Australia Mar 15th, 2011 at 4:30 am @ Jochen-we found that long pole (a float) on the beach, so very useful!

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 156

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

There is a thing parents know very well – how important it is to choose the right name for a child. For example, I have birded 4 continents, Europe, Southern Africa, South Asia and Central America and have seen 200-300 species in every region, yet, due to overlapping, they do not even sum up to a 10% of all bird species!

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Family Birds South America Breeding 298

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

They may eat other insects if they have to, but all they really want are ants and Gorman lists 24 species of ant that are part of their diet in Europe, any life stage will do. Gorman also leads bird tours in central and Eastern Europe and posts photos and updates on his work on his own website and, as I said before, Facebook.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 258

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AUGUST 29, 2019

From there, we continue along a well maintained dirt track, where one Eurasian Blackcap awaits on a bush by the road and a few Barn Swallows are chasing insects… In the bush around us commonly grows the only indigenous palm of Europe – dwarf fan palm (below), barely reaching the car window height. right next to us.

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Terrapins Eagles Europe Rats 205

Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

Think of your favorite horror film: A brutal ruthless killer is on the loose, slashing hapless innocent victims to death right and left. you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S. Cavel, a Belgian company, kills horses in Illinois for export to Europe.

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Horse Slaughter Slaughter Slaughtered Horses 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

And in my customary environmentally friendly approach to recycling bird photos, I have collected some of them in this post. The Northern Goshawk gets the HBW into a slightly lyrical mode: “Whether carried afield on the fists of Japanese shoguns or by medieval falconers of Europe, Goshawks have seen much human history.

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Falcons Japan China South Africa 261

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MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Wicked, right? This wiki looks good too.] I am clearly not. Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

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APRIL 22, 2013

From there, we continue along a well maintained dirt track, where one Eurasian Blackcap awaits on a bush by the road and a few Barn Swallows are chasing insects… In the bush around us commonly grows the only indigenous palm of Europe - dwarf fan palm , barely reaching the car window height. right next to us.

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Spain Terrapins Eagles Europe 241

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Even collecting one piece after another, I didn’t manage to see the whole picture, but after a lot of effort, I collected enough pieces to ID the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , only the first of a dozen that will be chock chock chocking from fruiting mulberries. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 240

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JUNE 22, 2023

If such human food is not available, the Yellow-billed Chough goes back to its original diet of (at least in Europe) grasshoppers, as described here. Or maybe there was just more need to collect food, but I like the first explanation better.

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Birds China Science Research 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Greater Double-collared Sunbird (right) is less common and more localized than its smaller cousin. In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample!

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

The research, although widely accepted, was greeted with some skepticism early on (Sutton 1966), and eventually followup attempts to replicate his research and experiments near Clyde River Nunavut by Richard Schnell found that the data could not have been have been collected as Smith’s publications had indicated.

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Research Europe Iceland Panama 182

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2019

The middle section is occupied by the 291 plates (right hand side), including the raptors in flight comparison pages (something sadly dropped from contemporary guides for Europe), as well as 22 plates of hummingbirds alone, with distribution maps and textual descriptions on the left.

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Ecuador South America 2006 Birds 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

If you liked this post featuring Ruddy Duck images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Wicked, right? All of the shots in this post were taken on 12-13 March 2011 at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York. There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks ! Hat-tip to Stella.

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2019

Late June night at the Casino Estoril, then the largest casino in Europe, located in the neutral Portugal where spies of all colours met. The illustrations are precise, detailed and beautiful, reaching about the right number of species per page, so they are not overcrowded, nor bare in places. The year was 1941.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Cuba 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2018

This species has suffered rapid population reductions across most of its range owing to the loss, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat and land-use changes in eastern Europe, says IUCN’s Red List. It therefore qualifies as Vulnerable. All the teams were wandering around like busy bees, but hadn’t found any other bustards.

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Hungary Serbia Austria Eggs 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. And similarly with 99 other birds — raptors, songbirds, ducks, and otherwise.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The compactness of both books (Dragonflies is 208-pages and Butterflies is 224-pages long) of course stems from the small number of each type of insect in Great Britain and Ireland; comparative field guides for Europe and Great Britain are necessarily longer and heavier.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Donna) The Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe covers Europe, North Atlantic islands, much of North Africa and the Middle East. It mostly consists of a random collection of readable field snippets describing encounters with more exciting birds.

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North America Birds Europe America 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

Next to species texts is a novelty I never saw in a field guide before – the QR barcode, a mobile phone readable optical label that in this case links to a relevant Internet Bird Collection website (www.hbw.com/ibc) page, with complementary audiovisual material (dozens of photos, videos and sounds) of the species in question.

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 208

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). The pages are labeled on the left with the genus name (for example, Larus) and on the right with the brief title: Gulls.

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2004 North America America Europe 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The 10-page section aptly named “Age, sex, and identification of ducks using in-hand upperwing patterns” is a guide to just that, utilizing images from two Washington State museum collections. And, let’s face it, he is right. I only wish that it did not use such a dark background.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 133